"This anthology contains 25 of the best short stories published on the web in 2009 and 2010, as chosen by the editors of ChamberFour.com, a website dedicated to making reading more enjoyable and more rewarding. Inside,you’ll find traditional, Carver-esque stories alongside magical realist tales of teleportation, long pieces that slowly pull you in, and single-page punches to the solar plexus. Some of these authors you’ve heard of, others you’ll be discovering for the first time, and you can be sure you’ll see them all again. No factor unifies the pieces collected here beyond their publication online and that hard-to-define but unmistakable hallmark of quality. These stories are as diverse and as wide in scope as the Internet, but each is true to their shared subject: the attempt to reconcile our world to the struggles of the human soul. Featuring stories from great magazines like Boston Review, Inkwell, Drunken Boat, Granta, AGNI, Night Train, Witness, Guernica, and many more."